Undergraduate Course: Historical Skills and Methods II (HIST10425)
Course Outline
School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | This 20-credit course helps students to improve their skills writing with primary sources. It builds upon work done in Historian's Toolkit and other courses and is designed to prepare students for writing a history dissertation. |
Course description |
This course encourages students to gain greater awareness of, and confidence in, the task of working closely on a body of primary historical source material as the basis of their study of the past. Students on this course will gain greater familiarity with the opportunities offered by close source work, as well as the challenges that historical evidence pose to the historian. The skills acquired through this work will be useful for future study, not least in the final Dissertation in which the ability to identify and analyse a body of relevant sources is particularly important.
Content note: The study of History inevitably involves the study of difficult topics that we encourage students to approach in a respectful, scholarly, and sensitive manner. Nevertheless, we remain conscious that some students may wish to prepare themselves for the discussion of difficult topics. In particular, we recommend that students enrolled on this course check the pathway descriptions carefully when listing their preferences, where lecturers will outline any sensitive content likely to be discussed on their pathways. These pathway descriptions will be made available on the course Learn site by the beginning of the relevant semester.
While these pathway descriptions indicate sensitive topics students are likely to encounter, they will not be exhaustive because pathway organisers cannot entirely predict the directions discussions may take in seminars, or through the wider reading that students may conduct for the course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Introduction to Historiography (HIST08044)
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students should only be enrolled on this course with approval from the History Honours Programme Administrator.
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Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 1,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
189 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
Essay (5,000 words): 100% |
Feedback |
Students will receive written feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the Course Organiser during their published office hours or by appointment. |
No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- demonstrate skills in locating primary sources in libraries, online and in archives;
- demonstrate understanding of the role of research questions and hypotheses;
- demonstrate knowledge of at least two methods of historical analysis;
- demonstrate practical experience of planning and completing a research project as a stepping-stone to the Dissertation.
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Reading List
Students enrolled on this course are allocated to research pathways closely aligned with the research interests of a member of academic staff. As a result, expected texts are defined at pathway rather than course level. |
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Megan Hunt
Tel: (0131 6)50 9110
Email: Megan.Hunt@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Katherine Perry
Tel:
Email: kperry2@ed.ac.uk |
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